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# The Evil Eye
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/the-evil-eye/
- Published: 2021-12-22T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-12-22T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: I traveled to the Evil Eye and asked it nicely: lift the curse but things have simply gotten worse this I can no longer deny
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

I traveled to the Evil Eye  
and asked it nicely: lift the curse  
but things have simply gotten worse  
this I can no longer deny

this morning, when I dropped my toast  
it landed on the butter side  
I could have stripped it of its hide  
this Evil Eye, and made a roast

and yesterday, I hit my knee  
when getting up from my own desk  
I wished for fates grim and grotesque  
on this damned Eye, for all to see

my market moves keep failing still  
the thing goes up, and I go down  
I've noticed, I'm met with a frown  
the Evil Eye must have a shill

persistent is, this Evil Eye  
this I can no longer deny  
this incantation, writ in verse  
perhaps it'll rid me of my curse

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**Author notes:** https://allpoetry.com/contest/2795290-Break-on-Through.....Surrealism-and-Dadaism